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I've been running Antergos XFCE for years now. As I'm sure everyone knows, the Antergos project ended in May. I was planning to jump to a different distribution last summer, but then life happened and I'm still running Antergos.

This hasn't been a problem, until recently. The package pamac conflicts with the latest version of pacman.

I'm curious if there is a simple way to convert my system to a pure Arch system. I've done a fair amount of googling but haven't found much.

Is this as simple as removing the antergos repos from my pacman.conf? If I do remove them, what happens to the packages on my system installed from the antergos repos?

Brian Fitzpatrick
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1.Add Arch repository to /etc/pacman.conf

[arch]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/arch-mirrorlist

2.Create /etc/pacman.d/arch-mirrorlist file 

Server = https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

3.Update your system:

sudo pacman -Syyuu

4.Pray for the old gods and the new ones.

vfbsilva
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  • Tried that, got `error: failed retrieving file 'arch.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : The requested URL returned error: 404` – robertc Oct 27 '19 at 15:25
  • @robertc try a mirror from: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ – vfbsilva Oct 30 '19 at 13:07
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    Tried that, picked a UK mirror, same error. Looking at all the files I have in `/etc/pacman.d/` I already have a list of Arch repos in a file called `mirrorlist` which is included in `pacman.conf` under `[extra]` – robertc Nov 02 '19 at 23:14
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This should probably be another comment, but I don't have the reputation...

All the recommendations for adding

[arch]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/arch-mirrorlist

and

/etc/pacman.d/arch-mirrorlist
Server = https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

just created errors:

error: failed retrieving file 'arch.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to update arch (failed to retrieve some files)

This was already in pacman.conf, and gets all the Arch files

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

I just needed to remove the Antergos stuff and the updates worked!

LorenAmelang
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